PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe the arthroscopic clinical findings and treatment in patients with pathologic hypertrophy of the synovium in the anteromedial joint compartment in conjunction with anteromedial knee pain. TYPE OF STUDY Case series. METHODS A group of 21 patients, ranging in age from 11 to 68 years (mean, 29 years) with pathologic hypertrophic changes of the s...

Five pathologic variants of FSGS were recently defined ("Columbia classification"), but the stability of these phenotypes in renal allografts remains unknown. We hypothesized that if the variants represent distinct diseases, then the pattern of recurrent FSGS in renal allografts will mimic the original disease in the native kidney. This multicenter study included 21 cases of recurrent FSGS from...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the MR imaging findings of painful type II accessory navicular bone and to correlate these with the surgical and pathologic findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The MR images of 17 patients with medial foot pain and surgically proven type II accessory navicular abnormalities were reviewed. The changes of signal intensity in the accessory navicular, synchondrosis and adjacent ...

BACKGROUND Pathologic fractures of the femoral intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric region require special consideration in terms of biomechanically stable fixation and durability of the implant. In addition, the type of surgery might also influence patient survival. We conducted this retrospective study to evaluate the safety of modular proximal femur replacement compared to intramedullary na...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the complete pathologic response attained by patients diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer submitted to neoadjuvant chemotherapy based on the doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide regimen followed by paclitaxel. METHODS A retrospective cohort of patients with locally advanced breast cancer, admitted to the Hospital de Câncer de Barretos between 2006 and 2008 submitted to...

Generalized nonlinear response theory is presented for stochastic dynamical systems. Experiments in which multiple measurements of dynamical quantities are used along with multiple perturbations of parameters of dynamical systems are described by generalized response functions (GRFs). These constitute a new type of multidimensional measures of stochastic dynamics either in the time or the frequ...

It is a challenging task to diagnose mycosis fungoides (MF), a type of primary cutaneous lymphoma, in the early stages of its development, due to the unspecific presentations associated with the disease. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry conduce to a more definite diagnosis. Presence of atypical T-cells in epidermis and upper dermis is the most significant pathologic finding. Herein...